In the last twenty years, the Philippines has gained a good progress in poverty reduction. However, compared to other … Philippine population lives below the poverty line. With landless status, the poor depended largely on labor with its embedded … educational capital. However, in education, the rich and the poor are separated by two different educational divisions …

Over the past sixty years, the concept of development has expanded from economic growth and investment, to poverty … infrastructure to growth; the significance of growth, infrastructure and human development to poverty reduction; the contribution of … growth and human development to sustainable development; the effect of nonfarm incomes to growth, poverty reduction, and …

Over the past sixty years, the concept of development has expanded from economic growth and investment, to poverty … infrastructure to growth; the significance of growth, infrastructure and human development to poverty reduction; the contribution of … growth and human development to sustainable development; the effect of nonfarm incomes to growth, poverty reduction, and …

This study extends the literature on the relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction by differentiating … growth and poverty into their sectoral compositions and locations. We find that growth in the rural services sector reduces … poverty in all sectors and locations. However, in terms of elasticity of poverty, urban services growth has the largest for …

Government education spending is expected to improve the well-being of beneficiaries and enhance their capability to … earn income in the future. In this sense, directing education expenditures to the poor holds a promise for breaking the … inter-generational transmission of poverty. Given this perspective, the paper addresses the question : to what extent has …

The paper studies the effects of the changing age and education composition of the labour force on productivity growth … in Singapore. The quality change of workers from aging and education is measured through a quality index. Quality change … through education is the key driving force for the productive performance of the labour force. On the other hand, the growth …

young children, the effect of maternal orphanhood on education is significantly more adverse than that of chronic poverty … of chronic poverty. We also investigate whether there are any gender dimensions in the effects. We find that young … significant effect of orphanhood on health. However, chronically poor children have worse health and education outcomes. Among …

in the analysis as applied on government spending on education in the Philippines. …